Caracterização clínica, demográfica e nutricional de pacientes oncológicos atendidos em um hospital público - 2008

• Autor(a) principal: Prado, Corina Dias do [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Campos, Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://serv-bib.fcfar.unesp.br/seer/index.php/alimentos/article/viewArticle/1406; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/125984
• topic: Neoplasms; Neoplasm staging; Nutritional assessment; Malnutrition; Neoplasias; Estadiamento de neoplasias; Avaliação nutricional; Desnutrição

To identify the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics and the nutritional status of patients with cancer. A cross-sectional study with non-probability sample design was performed. One hundred and thirty-four adults with cancer, interned at Amaral Carvalho Hospital (Jaú- SP) between April and November 2008, participated in this study. Clinical and sociodemographic data of the sample were obtained. The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment was used to identify the nutritional status. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test (χ2 ) was used. The mean age of patients was 51.13±9.59 years. Most of the patients presented gastrointestinal and head and neck cancer in clinical stages III and IV, and were mainly treated with chemotherapy. Between the participants 73,88% were of the masculine sex, 65,67% were married and 65,68% presented education level below the gymnasial complete. Sixty-fi ve (48.51%) patients were classifi ed as “well-nourished”, 56 (41.79%) as “moderately malnourished (or suspected)”, and 13 (9.70%) as “severely malnourished”. There was no signifi cant association between the nutritional status and the sociodemographic characteristics and the antineoplastic treatment. The malnourished patients presented a higher frequency of eating disorders (p=0.001), lack of appetite (p=0.001), nausea (p=0.018), vomiting (p=0.021), pain (p=0.010), strange taste (p=0.001) and nausea at the smell of food (p=0.018) than the well-nourished ones. There was a high prevalence malnutrition signifi cantly associated with the presence of clinical symptoms.